id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4382 Taunus - Wikipedia .html text/html 1457 196 68 The Taunus is a mountain range in Hesse, Germany, located north of Frankfurt. The Taunus range spans the districts of Hochtaunuskreis, Main-Taunus, Rheingau-Taunus, Limburg-Weilburg, and Rhein-Lahn. It is a relatively low range, with smooth, rounded mountains covered with forest. The Taunus is bounded by the valleys of the Rhine, Main, and Lahn rivers and it is part of the Rhenish Slate Mountains. On the opposite side of the Rhine, The Taunus range is continued by the Hunsrück. The Taunus range originated during the Devonian period.[2] The geological composition of the mountains was formed in a region covered by an ancient sea that was a few hundred kilometers wide. Hohe Wurzel (618 m; telecommunication facility), Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis The Taunus with the Grosser Feldberg viewed from Karben Frankfurt am Main, with the Taunus Mountains in the background ^ Geologische Highlights im Geopark Westerwald-Lahn-Taunus (in German) Media related to Taunus at Wikimedia Commons Mountain ranges of Rhineland-Palatinate ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4382.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4382.txt